Music in Our Lives: Why We Listen, How It Works

Music in Our Lives: Why We Listen, How It Works
ISBN-10
0786497599
ISBN-13
9780786497591
Category
Music
Pages
204
Language
English
Published
2014-12-19
Publisher
McFarland
Author
Jonathan L. Friedmann

Description

Music research has entered something of a Golden Age. Technological advances and scholarly inquiry have merged in interdisciplinary studies--drawing on psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology and other fields--that illuminate the musical nature of our species. This volume develops, supports and challenges that body of research, examining key issues in the field, such as the difficulty of writing about music, the formation of musical preferences, the emotional impact of musical sounds, the comparison of music and language, the impulse for making music and the connection between music and spirituality.

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